Originally intended for the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack, I'll Cry Instead was replaced by Can't By Me Love at the request of director Richard Lester. It was restored for an opening collage sequence during the film's 1986 VHS reissue.

I wrote that for A Hard Day's Night, but Dick Lester didn't even want it. He resurrected Can't Buy Me Love for that sequence instead. I like the middle eight to that song, though – that's about all I can say about it.

They were edited together on that day, yes. The longer version (normally heard on the US Capitol releases) is still a combination of parts A and B, but with an extra verse left in that wasn’t included in the UK version.

-The short version
-The long version with no noticable edits. The repeat of the first verse is slightly different than the first time around, therefore not a splice.
-A long version, but its strikingly obvious they just copied the first verse and tacked it on as a third verse. The splice at 1:15 is obvious.

I think John should have given this song for Ringo to sing…
He didn’t sing any song on AHDN and this suits well his style.
There would be more variety as well given John sings the majority of songs on the album

This is my guess on how the two different duration mono versions came to be:

The authentic mono “long” definitely has a splice, but the repeat of the first verse comes from the “B section” recording. This explains why the repeated verse has a unique performance and why the sound of the mix/balance changes at that verse.

Lewisohn reports only a single mono remix being created — that on June 4th. How, then, could the US release include the repeated verse, but the UK omits it?

Lewisohn also reports two identical sets of tape copies of the mono remixes were made on June 9th, which were intended for the US (one copy to Capitol and the other to United Artists).

My theory is…

a) The mono remix was originally made with the repeated first verse, and that was the remix that was used for the tape copies sent to the US.

b) At some point *after* the tape copies had been shipped to the US, the decision was made to delete the repeated verse. This edit was performed on the original mono remix, but could not be done to the tape copies.

c) The decision to remove the verse was taken before any stereo remixes were created. Thus by the time a stereo remix (or tape copy) went to the US, it was identical to the UK stereo remix (created on June 22).

Outstanding John Lennon number. Unlike one of the other contributors, I am pleased Lennon sings this himself. The ” chip on my shoulder” etc line points towards themes that would reoccur in John Lennon’s songs on “Beatles For Sale”, “Help!” and “Rubber Soul”. As some one else said particularly “Run For Your Life” off the latter album. Most famously you can point to “Jealous Guy” off the”Imagine” album,( I am talking now about his solo records now), “Scared” a brilliant number off “Walls and Bridges” and one of the best off “Double Fantasy”, “I’m Losing You”. The insecurity theme would come up in particular in his dealings with women. His honesty in writing about this side of himself resulted in some of John Lennon’s best songs. “I’ll Cry Instead” may not have been used in the”A Hard Days Night” film but it helps in making up a batch of great songs for side two of the album.

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